A young cowboy discovers a mysterious grove of aspen grove growing on the Montana prairie, far from their native habitat. The power of the grove holds the family together through two World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan. As the young widowed owner, Fanny must fight ethnic intolerance towards her extended family. In her waning years, she worries about who will take over after her death, when an unexpected heir appears on the scene.

Literary fiction, for all ages. Oren Walker is a bright, but shy, Canadian teenager who faces a lot of challenges. His twin brother Evan gives him lots of trouble. He doesn't know how to talk to girls, and he feels lonely. His Danish-born mother is homesick for her country and struggles with depression. His indigenous father is emotionally distant, always favouring Evan over him. One day, Oren encounters a mysterious being in the woods named Rayne, who does not seem quite human. Rayne becomes a secret mentor. He gives Oren lessons in philosophy, helping him to think more clearly. Oren slowly begins to understand how to cope with his problems. But soon, winter comes ... and Rayne disappears. Oren must now face his challenges alone. His mother goes back to Denmark. Everything at home gets much worse. One day, he gets fed up and he runs away from home, leading to a journey of self-discovery. He learns of his surprising true origins, and slowly gets to know somebody who will become very important to him. Through all of his experiences, Oren matures and grows into a mature young man, who will pass along all of the lessons that he learned from Rayne.

It is 1235 AD in Trondheim, Norway, as King Haakon Sigurdsson IV worries what will become of a Viking king without the strength to wage battle or the wisdom to lead. Desperate for answers, he summons a mystical storyteller from Iceland to tell him the sagas of former kings. Soon, Snorri Sturlson arrives at the Norwegian castle to relay the story of King Olaf Tyggvason to the current king with hopes of restoring his belief that he too, can be a noble leader. From the moment he is born into royalty, it seems Olaf is destined for greatness. But when his familys kingdom is overthrown by Earl Haakon, ten-year-old Olaf is captured and sold as a slave by pirates. As Olaf embarks on a coming-of-age journey where he must struggle to regain his kingdom and fight for the woman he loves, he brings word of Christianity to Norway and sends Leif Erickson to discover a new world in 1000 AD. But Olafs determination to recover what he has lost may end up costing him more than he ever imagined. In this novel based on a true story, a Norwegian king sacrifices everything to battle for his kingdom and the heart of his true love, ultimately becoming one of the greatest adventurers the world has ever known.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York Times Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life. In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow labor with the help of Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who ruled Lake County with murderous resolve. When a white seventeen-year-old girl cried rape, McCall pursued four young black men who dared envision a future for themselves beyond the groves. The Ku Klux Klan joined the hunt, hell-bent on lynching the men who came to be known as "the Groveland Boys." Associates thought it was suicidal for Marshall to wade into the "Florida Terror," but the young lawyer would not shrink from the fight despite continuous death threats against him. Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, including the FBI's unredacted Groveland case files, as well as unprecedented access to the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund files, Gilbert King shines new light on this remarkable civil rights crusader.